bight

n. 海湾, 绳圈 vt. 用绳环扣住, 结成绳圈

发音

其它 /baɪt/

词形变化

bights 复数 bights bighted bighting bights 三单 bighting 现在分词 bighted 过去式 bighted 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow

    the bight of a horse's knee

    the bight of an elbow

  2. 2.

    An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf.

  3. 3.

    A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.

  4. 4.

    A curve in a rope.

v.
  1. 1.

    To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 10

turn center bay centre bend twist loop crook embayment midpoint

整体词 1

rope
动词

上位词 3

fix secure fasten

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt; see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *beuganą (“to bend, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian boch, bocht, bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Saterland Frisian Bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), West Frisian bocht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Dutch bocht (“bay, bight”), German Bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Icelandic bót (“bight, cove, small bay”); also Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”), Ukrainian бга́ти (bháty, “to crumple, twist”), Sanskrit भुज् (bhuj, “to bend, curve; to sweep”).

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